piCore64 mksquashfs -b 16384 I get 4096 [SOLVED]

[repeat]

I'm compiling an binary for piCore64 but no matter what I do I get 4096 block size. I have added -b 16K and -b 16384.

I've tried this with piCore64 16.0 on raspberry pi 4 and 5 with the same results.

What am I doing wrong? (everything)

I figured out submitqc was changing it back to 4096 even though I'm on aarch64 and required to submit as 16K.

[Paul_123]

I thought we fixed that in submitqc

[Rich]

Hi Paul_123
According to you, you fixed it:

armhf can stay 4k, but I have changed the defaults for squashfs-tools to 16k for both.

If someone is building an arch independant extension like firmware-*   those should be 16k since they tend to get copied between repos.

From 16.x/aarch64/tcz/squashfs-tools.tcz.info:

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Current:        2024/04/13 Recompiled with new 16k blocksize
Maybe submitqc is overriding the default for mksquashfs with -b 4096.

[repeat]

sorry.. my issue was with submitqc unstable release 20241219

Have to add the --blocksize or converts back to 4096.

gutmensch accepted my build of rsgain after I figured that out and a few other niggles.

[Rich]

Hi repeat
OK, I just looked at the latest submitqc and you are correct.

For anyone else that runs into this, the syntax for 16K is:

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--blocksize=16384
Although  mksquashfs  will also accept  16K , that will fail with  submitqc.
--blocksize=  must be specified in bytes, not  Kbytes  or  Mbytes.